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Join an award-winning professor of physics to explore the powerful forces of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, and nuclear medicine.

Syllabus

01: A Tour of the Nucleus and Nuclear Forces
02: Curve of Binding Energy: Fission and Fusion
03: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Decay
04: Radiation Sources, Natural and Unnatural
05: How Dangerous Is Radiation?
06: The Liquid-Drop Model of the Nucleus
07: The Quantum Nucleus and Magic Numbers
08: Particle Accelerators: Schools of Scattering
09: Detecting Subatomic Particles
10: How to Experiment with Nuclear Collisions
11: Scattering Nucleons in Singles or in Pairs
12: Sea Quarks, Gluons, and the Origin of Mass
13: Nuclear Fusion in Our Sun
14: Making Elements: Big Bang to Neutron Stars
15: Splitting the Nucleus
16: Nuclear Weapons Were Never “Atomic” Bombs
17: Harnessing Nuclear Chain Reactions
18: Nuclear Accidents and Lessons Learned
19: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Advanced Reactors
20: Nuclear Fusion: Obstacles and Achievements
21: Killing Cancer with Isotopes, X-Rays, Protons
22: Medical Imaging: CT, PET, SPECT, and MRI
23: Isotopes as Clocks and Fingerprints
24: Viewing the World with Radiation
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Taught by

Lawrence Weinstein

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